Oil-can.



PERRIN EPPERSON, OF BELT, MONTANA.

I v o I L -CA N I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

' Application filed January 28, 1905. serial No. 243,094-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERRIN EPPERSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Belt, in the county of Cascade and State of Montana, haveinvented new and useful, Improvements in Oil-Cans, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to oil-cans, and has for its objects to produce asimple inexpensive device of this character which may be readily filledand from which oil may be freely discharged in uniform quantities andone wherein leakage of oil from the can is in practice wholly precluded.

A further object of the invention is to provide an oil-can having afilling tube or duct designed to erform the additional function of ahandle f dr manipulating the can.

To these ends the invention comprises the novel features of constructionand combination of parts fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanyin drawing, the figure is a central longitudina sectionof a can embodying the invention.

Referring to the drawing, 1 designates a can having a discharge-spout 2,provided with a removable discharge-nozzle 3, the canbody 1 and spout 2being preferably made integral, to thereby obviate leakage of oil fromthe can, while-the nozzle 3 may be readily removed for purposes ofcleaning the same.

Attached to and communicating at its lower end with the body of the canthi ough the side wall of the latter is a filling tube or duct 4preferably curved outwardly and up wardly, as shown, to constitute ahandle and provided at its upper end with an enlarged mouth or funnel 5.The funnel 5, which permits ready introduction of oil into and throughthe duct 4, has formed through its side Wall a vent-opening 7, normallyclosed by a valve 8, carried at one end of the pivoted lever 9, theother end of which constitutes a thumb-piece to be conveniently enga edby the operator for manipulating the va ve to open the vent during theoperation of discharg' g oil from the can, there being arranged beneaththe thumb piece or portion of the lever a spring 10, serving to maintainthe valve 8 normally closed.

The discharge-spout 2 is externally threaded near its juncture with thebody of the can and has tapped thereon a bearing-nut 11, designed toretain in place a cap or closure 12 for normally closing the upper endor mouth of the duct 4, this cap or closure being provided with aperforated extension designed to engage the spout 2 and having aprojection or lug 13 to be acted upon by the head of the nut 11 inpressing the cap securely over the mouth of the duct.

In practice to open the duct the nut 11 is partly unscrewed, therebypermitting the closure to be turned laterally, whereby oil may beintroduced into the mouth or funnel 5 and pass through the duct 4 to thecan, and after the latter has received a sufficient quantity of oil thecap is again replaced, when escape or leakage of the oil from the can,except through the discharge-spout 2, will obviously be whollyprecluded. To discharge the oil, the can is tilted as usual and thethumb-piece or lever manipulated for opening the air-vent 7, which ofcourse permits air to enter the can and feed the oil therefrom, it beingapparent that the discharge of oil may be in this manner readilycontrolled, by means of the valve 8.

It is apparent from the foregoing that there is produced a simple deviceadmirably adapted for the attainment of the ends in view, it beingunderstood that minor changes in the details herein set forth may beresortedv to Without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is An oil-canhaving a discharge-spout, a filling-duct constituting a handle for thecan and terminating at its upper end in an open mouth, ahorizontally-movable closure pivoted on the spout and adapted to fitover said mouth, a bearing-nut tapped onto the spout over the closure,and a projecting bearing portion provided on the latter and designed tobear beneath the head of the nut.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PERRIN EPPERSON.

Witnesses:

GEO. J. SNooK, L. D. PENROSE.

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